{"id":693326,"date":"2026-07-15T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:59:10","slug":"emiliano-sala-cardiff-city-to-appeal-after-dismissed-100m-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693326\/","title":{"rendered":"Emiliano Sala: Cardiff City to appeal after dismissed \u00a3100m claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c3r7417yx4qo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming more than 120m euros<\/a> (\u00a3104m) for loss of income and other damages, based on the belief Sala could have kept the club in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Nantes commercial court dismissed its claims and also ordered the Welsh club to pay about \u00a3400,000 in legal fees and moral damages suffered by the French side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The penalty was payable immediately, regardless of any possible appeal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time of the verdict, Cardiff&#8217;s legal representatives said they would take time to reflect whether to continue the legal claim via an appeal, that would be heard at the Court of Appeal in Rennes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff had a three-month window to decide &#8211; with the deadline this week &#8211; but the club has now confirmed they have lodged their intention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An appeal triggers a new trial &#8211; a second chance at the case being heard and re-examined in its entirety &#8211; with the process taking up to two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff were claiming more than 120m euros (\u00a3104m) for loss of income and other damages, based on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}